I am your host KTown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary, paranormal, and horror tales.

The Serial killer Ed Gein of Plainfield, Wisconsin, was the inspiration for villains for several gruesome horror films, including Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill in Silence of

the Lambs, and Norman Bates in Psycho.

Gein's mother, Augusta, a psychotic and manipulative, domineering religious fanatic, became a single

mother after the 1940 heart attack and death of her alcoholic and abusive

husband, George. After Gaines' brother, Henry died in 1944, some say at Ed Gaines' own hands,

he had his mother all to himself. Her world revolved around him, just as she was the

center of his existence. After she died in late 1945, Gein 39 lived alone for the first time in his life.

Later diagnosed after suffering from schizophrenia, he missed his mother despite her emotional abuse of him.

Perhaps hoping that he might become his mother, Ed began dressing as a woman.

Gein robbed graves, digging up the bodies of women who reminded him of his mother.

But later, he resorted to murder. After dismembering

the women and skinning them, Gein did something that shocked the entire world. What I'm about to

tell you will have you saying, how in God's name can anyone bring themselves to mutilate a human body in such fashion?

By the end of this, you will know without a doubt.

Ed Gein was a natural born beast, making ghastly items of feminine attire straight from the skin of his victims.

Here are some of the things that were found in Ed Gein's home.

Even as a boy, Gein exhibited feminine behavior, which made him a target to his classmates

for bullying.

After the death of his mother, it seemed that he was

increasingly desperate to become a woman himself, possibly as a means of resurrecting his mother.

Although he claimed that he didn't participate in necrophilia because the women's corpses smelled too bad. He did don his victim's

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